Motivational Quotes

Men

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

- Stein, Gertrude

Best Quotes about Men

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Fleming, Robert B.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Whately, Richard

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

Porter, Katherine Anne

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Rowland, Helen

12.

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae

13.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Stein, Gertrude

14.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Greer, Germaine

15.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

17.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Day, Doris

18.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Bernikow, Louise

19.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Porter, Cole

20.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

21.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

22.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

24.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

27.

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Ford, Anna

28.

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Oakley, Ann

29.

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Baldwin, Faith

30.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Gable, Clark

31.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Mailer, Norman

32.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

33.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Aleichem, Sholom

35.

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Lewis, Wyndham

36.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Solanis, Valerie

40.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

41.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

42.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Caesar, Julius

43.

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

44.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

West, Mae

45.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

46.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

47.

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

48.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

50.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Wilde, Oscar